Food Safety News Thu 12/12/2019

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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. European rules for safer food come into force By News Desk on Dec 12, 2019 12:03 am Regulations aimed at modernizing protections against animal diseases and plant pests as well as improving food safety will apply beginning at the end of this week in Europe. The United Kingdom will implement EU Smarter Rules for Safer Food (SRSF) regulations from 11 p.m. on Dec. 13. The new rules replace more than 70 existing... Continue Reading Listeria risk prompts recall of dozens of smoked salmon products By News Desk on Dec 12, 2019 12:02 am Retailers in several states received cold smoked salmon that is now under recall because of positive test results for Listeria bacteria. Operations at the implicated production plant are suspended. Catsmo LLC of Wallkill, NY, posted the recall of an unrevealed amount of salmon products after government tests showed contamination. No confirmed illnesses had been reported... Continue Reading Salmonella found less often by Czech companies compared to authorities By Joe Whitworth on Dec 12, 2019 12:01 am An audit in the Czech Republic has found a significantly lower Salmonella detection rate in food company tests compared with official sampling of laying hens and broilers. Test results from authorities for 2018 show their detection rate was 15 times higher for laying hens than the companies’ results. DG Sante, the European Commission’s unit for food... Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Yuma 2018 had 240 sick not 210 By Bill Marler on Dec 11, 2019 09:25 pm “widespread environmental contamination” Can we dare mention water contamination, feedlots and dairy farms – well, cows generally? A mind-spinning article landed in my inbox today – “Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Infections Associated with Romaine Lettuce — United States, 2018.” CDC had reported only 210 ill – https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html – apparently it was larger? And, the genetic pattern... Continue Reading 27.5 tons of frozen breakfast burritos recalled for containing plastic pieces By News Desk on Dec 11, 2019 11:10 am Florence, SC-based Ruiz Food Products Inc. has recalled approximately 55,013 pounds of frozen, not ready-to-eat (NRTE) breakfast burrito products containing eggs, sausage, and cheese that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, namely pieces of plastic, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The frozen, NRTE breakfast burrito products were produced... Continue Reading